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Android - The Home Screen (Revised)

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:52

To add artwork to Eclipse, copy the image files (using Finder / Explorer) into the "drawable" directory. Once the files are copied, it's necessary to right-click on the project and select Refresh. After doing so, you should see the images in the folder where you placed them:

Eclipse and the Android SDK provide tooling to visually update the landing page layout. For me, I find it easier to update the XML file, and then switch to the visual pane to see how it looks. The updated version of home_vc.xml looks as follows: